Based on Euripides' "Hippolytus," this play by one of France's greatest playwrights is a magnificent example of character exposition. When the title character, Hippolytus' stepmother, receives false information that her husband, Theseus, is dead, Phedra... (read more)
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the... (read more)
A compendium of advice from the producers, writers, and actors of The Office, Saturday Night Live, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Knocked Up, Flight of the Conchords, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, Reno 911!, and The Hangover along with... (read more)
A practical, fascinating, and funny guidebook. I've already begun applying hints from Improvisation for the Spirit, and I'm hoping that from now on, when people point and laugh at me, it will be for more appropriate reasons. A delightful read, filled... (read more)
This is one of the best Sanskrit plays and it is known very widely. Basham's excellent adaptation makes the play more accessible in English than any previous rendering.... (read more)
In this revue collection, Mrs. Bolton once again tackles the daily highs and lows of Christian family life, though, according to her, 'there are certainly many more highs than lows.' Those who have seen Jeremiah People probably have seen Club Family--it... (read more)
This introduction to live theater offers a training ground where budding singers, song-writers, comedians, fashion designers, musicians, dancers, choreogaphers and a multitude of other creative people, can learn the fundamentals of what it takes to... (read more)
The Norton Anthology of Dramaoffers sixtyfive major plays'"including three twentieth-century plays not available in any other drama anthology'"the most carefully prepared introductions, annotations, and play texts, and a convenient two-volume, one-column... (read more)
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